"End to End via the Margins" -the diary of a
walk.
- Coal Aston to Firth Park

Diary

Another short day, a bit more grey and a bit more cool. This time I was on
home territory, walking across Sheffield to stay the night at home. In many ways
it wasn't much different from my usual walk home, except that there were some
leaves on the trees, and there was brown earth where once there had been a block
of flats off Earl Marshall Road. It didn't feel as if I was in the middle of
something bigger.

It was good to be accompanied again, from Jordanthorpe to Graves Park by a
posse of people, and further into town by Gwen Smithies.

Early in the evening, some neighbours and people from the church came round
to eat pizza, lend me foot potions and encourage me. People are so kind.

Just for today I am filling in the diary at home, one of many people who
work at home.

PrayerLiving God, we
give you thanksfor people who work from home,and all they have given
to our lives.They have written our novels,recorded our times,packed
our Christmas cards,assembled the frames of the parasols under which we
shelter when we go on holiday,glued, assembled, computed, packed, marked
essays, sewn and written.We thank you, God.And we pray for them,whether
for them homeworkingis an opportunity,a good and fair job,or
exploitation.God bless them and keep them,strengthen them,and
give them life.

We thank you for the workof the National Group on
Homeworking, the West Yorkshire Homeworking Group and other local groupsin
securing justice for homeworkers.